Critical Theory Books

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31. Law and Evil

    Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis

    Edited by Ari Hirvonen, Janne Porttikivi

    Law and Evil opens, expands and deepens our understanding of the phenomenon of evil by addressing the theoretical relationship between this phenomenon and law. Hannah Arendt said 'the problem of evil will be the fundamental question of post-war intellectual life in Europe'. This statement is,...

    Published July 27th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
32. Madness in International Relations

    Psychology, Security, and the Global Governance of Mental Health

    By Alison Howell

    Series: Interventions

    Madness in International Relations provides an important and innovative account of the role of psychology and psychiatry in global politics, showing how mental health governance has become a means of securing various populations, often with questionable effects. Through the analysis of three key...

    Published May 31st 2011 by Routledge
33. Contemporary State Terrorism

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Richard Jackson, Eamon Murphy, Scott Poynting

    Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

    This volume aims to ‘bring the state back into terrorism studies’ and fill the notable gap that currently exists in our understanding of the ways in which states employ terrorism as a political strategy of internal governance or foreign policy. Within this broader context, the volume has a number...

    Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
34. Exceptionalism and the Politics of Counter-Terrorism

    Liberty, Security and the War on Terror

    By Andrew W. Neal

    Series: Routledge Studies in Liberty and Security

    This book is an analysis and critique of the concepts of ‘exception’ and ‘exceptionalism’ in the context of the politics of liberty and security in the so-called ‘War on Terror’. Since the destruction of the World Trade Centre on September 11th 2001, a notable transformation has occurred in...

    Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
35. Contemporary Critical Theory and Methodology

    By Piet Strydom

    Series: Social Research Today

    Contemporary critical theory’s methodology is currently taking shape under the impact both of transformative internal develops within the discipline, and of external pressures and incentives arising from a series of international debates. In this book, Piet Strydom presents a groundbreaking...

    Published February 27th 2011 by Routledge
36. The Ethical Subject of Security

    Geopolitical Reason and the Threat Against Europe

    By J. Peter Burgess

    Series: PRIO New Security Studies

    While critical security studies largely concentrates on objects of security, this book focuses on the subject position from which ‘securitization’ and other security practices take place. First, it argues that the modern subject itself emerges and is sustained as a function of security and...

    Published February 14th 2011 by Routledge
37. Stillness in a Mobile World

    Edited by David Bissell, Gillian Fuller

    Series: International Library of Sociology

    This edited collection of essays on the conceptual, political and philosophical importance of stillness is positioned within a world that has increasingly come to be understood through the theoretical and conceptual lens of movement. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, the...

    Published October 31st 2010 by Routledge
38. Experiencing War

    Edited by Christine Sylvester

    Series: War, Politics and Experience

    This edited collection explores aspects of contemporary war that affect average people –physically, emotionally, and ethically through activities ranging from combat to television viewing. The aim of this work is to supplement the usual emphasis on strategic and national issues of war in the...

    Published October 12th 2010 by Routledge
39. International Relations and States of Exception

    Margins, Peripheries, and Excluded Bodies

    Edited by Shampa Biswas, Sheila Nair

    Critically but sympathetically interrogating Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s analysis of the logic of sovereign power, this volume draws attention to the multiple zones of exclusion in and through which contemporary international politics constitutes itself. Beginning from the margins and...

    Published December 3rd 2009 by Routledge
40. Capital as Power

    A Study of Order and Creorder

    By Jonathan Nitzan, Shimshon Bichler

    Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

    Conventional theories of capitalism are mired in a deep crisis: after centuries of debate, they are still unable to tell us what capital is. Liberals and Marxists both think of capital as an ‘economic’ entity that they count in universal units of ‘utils’ or ‘abstract labour’, respectively. But...

    Published May 21st 2009 by Routledge